Eden Robins

Eden Robins is the author of the forthcoming novel Remember You Will Die, and her debut novel, When Franny Stands Up, was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader, a best queer book of 2022 by Autostraddle, and best book of the month by Bustle and Buzzfeed. She was an Illinois Arts Council Fellow in Literature in 2023, and also writes short stories, personal essays, and cultural criticism at places like Slate, Catapult, USA Today, LA Review of Books, Apex magazine, Shimmer, and others. Previously, she sold sex toys, wrote jokes for Big Pharma and an AI chatbot, and once did a stand-up comedy set to an audience who didn't boo. She lives in Chicago, has been to the bottom of the ocean, and will never go to space.